Toledo Neighborhood Capacity Building Institute launched Monday
The program aims to promote community within Toledo’s neighborhoods.
TOLEDO, Ohio — Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz and other city officials joined the 2021 Cohort of the Toledo Neighborhood Capacity Building Institute for a kick-off event Monday evening in Toledo City Council Chambers.
The TNCBI is designed to build organization and community capacity in areas necessary for effective neighborhood revitalization and sustainability.
“We really need organized neighborhoods, we need organized neighbors and regardless of whether we all like it or not, we need citizens lighting a fire under our rear end and occasionally poking with a poker,” said Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz.
“We hope that this will be an annual thing for the city. You will work with us to go through a year-long engagement of, really, learning and addressing and understanding all of the things that make for a strong organization and a strong community,” said City of Toledo Department of Neighborhoods Director Rosalyn Clemens.
The year-long institute will meet at least once-a-month for interactive sessions facilitated by The Barthwell Group out of Detroit, Michigan.
